NS H74's assignments vary day to day, taking it on at least 4 different routings through the course of the week. On this Sunday, their duties consist of bringing the Washington, NJ local out of Al... (more)

20K heads under the Fahey Bridge in Bethlehem with three GEs and a large train for North Jersey on the second to last day of 2012.

A pair of high hood EMDs running LHF as intended when Southern acquired them new come out of the LVRB River Yard in Bethlehem with a decent sized train for Allentown Yard. In the background is the... (more)

Three SD70 variants lead an early morning 212 through Bethlehem on a bitterly cold and windy Thanksgiving morning.

Freshly painted locomotive on turntable.

Eastbound train seen from the Hill to Hill Bridge

Pigs and Pig Iron
A piggyback section of NS 20K passes in front of the famous Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces as this intermodal comes to a stop in River Yard to break down its train.

A very odd consist for 2013 made up of an MP15DC-SW7-MP15DC sandwich pull their double stack train to a stop as another employee hands off orders on the ground to the engineer.

While NS 20K goes about dropping off a set of cars into the River Yard, the PBNE 19 leads two other switchers as it brings a cut of double stacks through the car filled yard and past the famous Be... (more)

The Virginian and two other NS units lead a lengthy cut of cars for LVRM. This bridge was formerly used by Lehigh Valley, and the Reading railroads. If only we could get those heritage units to ... (more)

IC&E SD40-2 idles away in the NS/PBNE River Yard. CP no longer operates trains into Allentown, making this shot impossible now. All good things must come to an end I suppose.

A three-unit consist of former Conrail SD40-2s leads a lengthy H65 out of Allentown Yard. Today's train is heavy with frac sand loads heading to the Delaware-Lackawanna interchange at Slateford J... (more)

As of this date, CSX is known for frequently running consists of older CP (including DME and ICE) units on ethanol trains into New Jersey. On this day, NS got into the game with a train bound for ... (more)

A late-running 211 passes CP 88 mid-afternoon in the shadow of the once-great and thriving Bethlehem Steel mill. The mill property has since been subdivided and contains a wide variety of busines... (more)

LVRB is able to assemble a locomotive consist not seen often in 2013. An MP15DC-SW7-MP15DC consist drops a small amount of interchange traffic for NS (2 cars) and CP (3 cars) in the River Yard at... (more)